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...fight was settled (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the Interstate Commerce Commission gave 61 Eastern railroads permission to boost passenger fares an average of 17% (a total of about $61,000,000 a year). By passengers' standards, it meant that coach travel was now as expensive (3? a mile) as Pullman travel was before...
Died. Claude McKay, 58, onetime Pullman porter and first Negro to write a bestseller (Home to Harlem, 1928); after long illness; in Chicago. A protege of Max Eastman, Poet-Author McKay drifted leftward through Communism to disillusionment, then swung to Catholicism, lost his high literary promise...
There were other parties, most of them sliver-sized. The Prohibition Party has nominated a candidate for President ever since its formation in 1869, the Socialists since 1892. From 1900 to 1920, the Socialists' candidate was Eugene V. Debs, "martyr" of the Pullman strike. He polled 919,799 votes in 1920 (when he was in jail for sedition), won no electoral votes...
...Pullman Porter Fred Wright, 67, who went to work for the New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad as a water boy when he was twelve ("I had a can, and went through the cars hollering 'water!' "), was awarded a gold pin for 55 years' service. His favorite car is the Lightning. "I use to talk to that car during the depression when sometimes there wouldn't be a passenger on the whole trip. I'd say: 'Lightning, old girl, we got to do better.' And now we're doing lots better...
...Haven Rairoad will run a special train to the game for tliose who lack other methods of getting down to Yale. Ten Pullman cars will leave South Station at 8:35 o'clock Saturday morning, and arrive in New Haven at 11:50 o'clock. The special train will start its return trip at 5:15 o'clock, pulling into Boston at 8:25 o'clock...